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SCRANTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

SCRANTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT TRUST ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.3M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$2.7M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Scranton Chamber of Commerce does

Mission

The organization promotes business interests and economic and workforce development in the greater scranton area of lackawanna county.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce is a multifaceted membership based business organization that touches nearly every aspect of our community. Our mission is to attract, sustain, and grow businesses throughout northeastern pennsylvania.in addition to traditional chamber services, such as networking, referrals, and cost-saving programs, the chamber is also the parent organization to various affiliates and initiatives that include: the scranton-lackawanna industrial building company (slibco), the scranton plan, lackawanna industrial fund enterprise (life), slibco utilities, the ignite program, metroaction, leadership lackawanna and skills in scranton.these affiliates and initiatives support economic development, provide small business lending services, facilitate leadership development programs, and guide workforce development initiatives in the greater scranton region. The chamber family supports our members' success, creating opportunities for the region and helping business owners and executives address the issues they face each day.

    $2,388,427 spent$2,893,993 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,388,427.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.7M) Expenses 100 ($3.0M) Net assets 100 ($3.1M)2018 Revenue 106 ($2.9M) Expenses 101 ($3.0M) Net assets 97 ($3.0M)2019 Revenue 107 ($2.9M) Expenses 100 ($3.0M) Net assets 95 ($2.9M)2020 Revenue 96 ($2.6M) Expenses 94 ($2.8M) Net assets 90 ($2.7M)2021 Revenue 120 ($3.3M) Expenses 101 ($3.0M) Net assets 102 ($3.1M)2022 Revenue 110 ($3.0M) Expenses 94 ($2.8M) Net assets 103 ($3.2M)2023 Revenue 105 ($2.9M) Expenses 101 ($3.0M) Net assets 102 ($3.1M)2024 Revenue 114 ($3.1M) Expenses 114 ($3.4M) Net assets 97 ($3.0M)2025 Revenue 120 ($3.3M) Expenses 119 ($3.5M) Net assets 90 ($2.7M)
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Revenue (120)Expenses (119)Net assets (90)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.3M to $3.9M (+20%).

$3.6M
$3.4M
$3.5M
$3.3M
$3.9M
$3.7M
$3.7M
$3.7M
$3.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 12% · 2022 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$246k
’17
−$91k
’18
−$61k
’19
−$166k
’20
$252k
’21
$198k
’22
−$123k
’23
−$275k
’24
−$265k
’25
5.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed444042424242485049
Joined·+9+9+3+16+1+14+8+10
No longer listed·13731618611
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
total
funders
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $57k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Geisinger Health). These are real filings, and they are not money SCRANTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE raised.

From the IRS filings of SCRANTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of SCRANTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 20%Fundraising 5%

Governance

44
board members
98%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Part of a family of 6 related entities

  • Leadership Lackawanna · exempt
  • Scranton Lack Industrial Bldg Co · exempt
  • Slibco Utilities · exempt
  • Lackawanna Industrial Fund Enterprises (Life) · exempt
  • Skills in Scranton Business Education Partnership · exempt

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds SCRANTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
SCRANTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT TRUST ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SCRANTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,000 in grants to SCRANTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Who is the largest funder of SCRANTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SCRANTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing